Jonathan Turley is one of those pundits who aren’t conservatives and yet whose work I really appreciate. Another is (often, anyway) Alan Dershowitz. Turley makes a good point about the completely different treatment of Flynn and McCabe for lying to … Continue reading →
This is shocking (or rather, it should be): former SCOTUS Justice Stevens (who is now 97), has written a NY Times op-ed piece calling for the elimination of the Second Amendment. The reason he gives is this: Rarely in my … Continue reading →
No, but it will seem longer. That’s my attempt at a joke. But maybe it’s not a joke. Maybe it’s true. For many years there’s been an idea—derived initially from animal research—that restricting caloric intake makes a person live longer. … Continue reading →
Actually, they appear to be rare, as a recent study has indicated. But one of the reasons for passing Obamacare was the idea pushed by the liberal/left (including and especially Elizabeth Warren) that medical bills were an enormous driver of … Continue reading →
…that I’ve already written close to 1/3 the number of posts about Trump than I’ve written about Obama, although Trump’s only been president approximately 15% as long as Obama was. I think that’s right; I had to do the math … Continue reading →
“Work” in the sense of getting China to make a deal, that is? Perhaps: China is willing to hold talks with the United States to resolve their differences over trade, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, as alarm grows over … Continue reading →
I didn’t watch the 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels, but I listened to most of it, and I’ve read some of the commentary. My take is similar to that of Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: The Stormy Daniels story … Continue reading →
I bet you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for Part III since the series first appeared back in 2012 (here are Part I and Part II). No? Well, here’s Part III anyway. Just to recap—“Swan Lake” is popular for … Continue reading →
Get on with it already!!, you may be thinking. But after the Big Crash of this site a few days ago—which remains undiagnosed, but which everyone is virtually 100% sure had nothing to do with my efforts at creating a … Continue reading →
I don’t mean “hysterical” as in “ha-ha.” I mean “hysterical” as in hyper, frenzied, almost-deranged. I have gotten to the point where I often don’t want to even look at the news. That’s a bit difficult for a blogger, although … Continue reading →
It’s called “Admissions,” and it’s by Joshua Harmon, and I’m surprised it was ever even produced, given the current political climate: It’s a relentless, often very funny exposé of the hypocrisies and self-contradictions of the diversity craze that defines virtually … Continue reading →
There’s been widespread condemnation of Trump’s tariffs and his trade war with China, and the stock market doesn’t seem to like the policy one bit—at least, so far: The threat of a global trade war continued to hang over the … Continue reading →